Meet the New Boss…

Trump is gone, at long last! Now it’s time to organize against Biden. As liberals celebrated the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th president of the United States of America, socialists greeted the occasion with a more nuanced, sober view. No doubt, we should absolutely celebrate Donald Trump’s long overdue exit from the […]

Attempted Right-Wing Coup on the Capitol: A Marxist Perspective

The images from the far-right’s storming of the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 are simultaneously shocking and surreal. The pictures of mostly white, right-wing Trump supporters, many of them brandishing firearms and Confederate flags wandering around the Capitol Building are no doubt ominous. The fascist element portrayed by these would-be insurrectionists cannot be denied. Let […]

Capitol Police Stand Aside as Far- Right Trump Supporters Siege Congress

Wednesday’s provocative right-wing attack on the Capitol, which effectively held up Congress’s official certification of Joe Biden as the next president for several hours, has raised many questions. Chief among them is how a mob of at least 2,000 protesters (very few of whom wore face masks) were able to gain access to the Capitol […]

The Greatest Obstacle to Medicare for All: The Democratic Party

Rather than appealing to the capitalist Democratic Party to hold a vote on Medicare for All, working-class people should be in the streets demanding it. Should “progressive” Democrats in Congress — specifically the left-wing faction of Democrats in the House of Representatives known as “The Squad” — force a vote on a Medicare for All […]

Money for Warmakers, Coronavirus For the Rest of Us

Lenin once described capitalism as “horror without end.” And in many respects, the coronavirus pandemic has forced that horror out into the open for all to see. The pandemic has highlighted the United States’ already anemic to nonexistent social safety nets: Its lack of free universal health care for all citizens; the lack of affordable […]

Lessons From October

Why Study the Russian Revolution? The Russian Revolution of 1917 remains one of the most important moments in the struggle for both socialism and human liberation. Yet, a century later the Bolshevik uprising also remains one of the most misunderstood events in history. Anti-communists on the right gleefully point to the Russian Revolution as “definitive […]

Celebrate Trump’s Defeat, then Organize Against Biden

Joe Biden won the election, but we cannot simply go back to “brunch.” There is no returning to a pre-Trump “normal.” We can only move forward through class-struggle. After four days of vote-counting, Joe Biden has finally been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The former vice president, now president-elect, is on track […]

Thanks to the Electoral College, Your Vote Does Not Really Count

The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College Regardless of who wins the presidential election on Tuesday, one thing is certain: That person will not have been elected by the voters. He will have been elected by the slave-owning “Founding Fathers”’ Electoral College. This complete disregard for the popular vote — and, thus, the will of […]

Now is the Time: Unite to Fight the Right

The last four years of Donald Trump’s presidency have been characterized by a frightening rise in far-right white supremacist groups. Trump has emboldened these hate groups with his repulsive racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and homophobic rhetoric. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the number of white nationalist groups in the U.S. rose from 100 in […]

The Dead-End of Lesser Evilism: The Socialist Case for Howie Hawkins

Labor activist, Dan La Botz has become the latest member of the left to publicly announce his support for Joe Biden’s presidency as the supposed “lesser evil” candidate against Donald Trump. La Botz, in throwing his weight behind Biden, joins public intellectuals like Angela Davis, Cornell West, and Noam Chomsky in advocating leftists vote for […]